Maybe the usual permission issue under Linux . Make the music folder and
files readable for all users .
LMS runs under its own user account on Linux ,so it probably has no
rigth to read anything under user pedro .
Main hifi:
Could the file format indicator also come to the current playlists :) (
optionally by a setting ,I bet it be considered clutter by many users )
I don't always manually add stuff it can be from spotify or Deezer or
locally from the lossy parts of the library .
Otherwise a very nifty feature
Don P wrote:
Thank you I work on this side but with no succes.
Logitech media server is an autorized user but that doesnot work...
Here screenshot :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hy29-63CusulihLC6MhKy5yHiLGgBJnPRPEVatMP-50/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you again.
P.
Can you browse the
Does it conect to mysqueezebox.com ,maybe try that ? And then try to
conected back to the local server .
Btw do you have your mysqueezebox.com credentials entered into your
local server and is the integration turned on ?
In that case players that are on mysqueezebox.com should be visible in
the
castalla wrote:
Nope ... out of stock in UK.
I see it for 10GBP at logitechs spare part store ?
Scroll down on this page
http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/promotions/4876?pcid=4872
Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J
castalla wrote:
The remote for my Radio stopped working - new battery made no
difference. Touch remote works. I contacted customer support and they
agreed to kindly send me a Touch remote - radio is still within
warranty.
Maybe the Boom remote will come back in stock ... I somehow doubt
I can't recall all sizes used , touch uses 3 different sizes so does
radio and ,controller wants 2 sizes and the web UI has several sizes to
.
But all are not pre cached , some are converted on the fly and stored
temporarily .
In the later LMs version the artwork is stored in the artwork.dB
JohnSwenson wrote:
I'm running the Squeezelite with builtin sox resampling on the wandboard
and it takes a whopping 6% cpu. Now the wandboard has a more powerful
CPU, but it still should be usable on the PI.
John S.
That's good , wandbord is quite powerfull , so if current PI has power
the nightfly wrote:
Well, SoX is on my system (big surprise, since it is the SqueezePlug
install), but it doesn't seem to be resampling sources greater than
24/96 (in other words, play a 24/192 file, get silence). Does anyone
know how to turn on resampling? A web search seems to get divided
Your Radio is it a Squeezebox Radio or UE-Radio ?
Are you using the latests version of LMS ? Or are conecte directly to
mysqueezebox.com
This happens in all interfaces even in the web-UI
what happens if you try to play something else not MOG ?
Not really , the squeezebox boom has it as it has built in speakers ,
but not any line level squeezebox since sb1.
That was really a property of the chip used in slimp3 sb1 . boom has an
extra DSP chip that also does the xover etc.
Touch, SB3 and Transporter uses more hifi oriented DAC chips ,
Squeezemenicely wrote:
I still do not quite understand why the customer thought he could get a
free Radio, plus his Touch (repaired or unrepaired)
Sort of two for one. This might come as a shock, but the dealers
actually have to also pay for the devices and sell them, since they have
to
You will be very lucky if they can find it for you it's probably
recycled by now, no one repairs this kind of electronics nowadays , you
just replace it
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toby10 wrote:
Something is blocking your Duet from seeing the internet. Tried
rebooting (just power cycling) router and Receiver player?
Or can the nas see interject properly ? A hint that it can not is loss
of radio menus and apps on th epochal LMS server and DNA errors in the
log .
Is the
There are even more diferences , slimp3 cant use the online service
mysqueezebox.com and probably has limitations with some third party
plugins too ? and no native flac support as mentioned.
and soundquality is improved in all models SB1 Supose then SD realised
that they could do a real audio
You can not keep the broken unit and get an replacement in EU either ,
it does not work that way .
it never has worked that way , the selling company would not get their
moiney back from logitech unless they provide the broken unit.
But the UE Radio is not an replacement for a Touch .
You
Have the previus owner deleted the player from his account ?
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rtate wrote:
i realize that i can still get the older versions, i was wondering how
much better the newer versions are.
Is there noticable improvements in sound quality ?
Sound quality is/has never been affected by the server version ,it not
the server that plays the music it is the players.
rtate wrote:
hmmm... some of my tagging is questionable so maybe I shoud stick to an
older version ?
Looking at the download area there sure seems to be alot of versions to
choose from.
you would think that the bugs would have been worked out a long time
ago...
Yea , but you get fresh
or foobar2000 with the rigth plugin .
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If you use the mip integration , is not LMS simply importing the mip
dB.
a way may be to imply delete the whole mip dB file and let mip do a
fresh scan ?
Is not mip's tag support a bit limited compared to LMS ?
But hen again if you want to use it you have to make the best of it.
If a file has several tag formats it could have different content in the
different tags .
In mp3tag if a file has flac and id3v1 for example .
But this should also show in the extended tag menu .
If you want to nuke the dB completely you could clear LMS cache folder,
then the all dB files
..and if you already have Id3v ( actually an mp3 tag format ) in you
flac files you should also perform the action to remove mp3 tags ? Or
similar , I'm afraid I'm not out to what's the latest in mp3tag .
So that you end up with flac files with only flac tags , that's simpler
.
On Linux you can
Chrobrego wrote:
I'd like:
* to have the possibility to use a Lyrics screensaver. Only iPeng app
offers this currently. The lyrics (or whatever tag you display) should
follow the song you are listening!
* to have the possibility to edit the tag from smartphone or tablet.
Don't like to use
epoch1970 wrote:
Looks to me they are not alone. Are you looking for a cable?
(this is an old argument. The SB is a networked audio system, not
point-to-point. And the slim server was in existence when iTunes was
still an amicable OS9-only application.)
+1
Yes it's not a long cable to the
Where do you live , there is also Pandora and Slacker and MOG .
Where I live it mostly Spotify (which is Solved for a server user by a
plugin if you want ).
But don't forget all users that run no local server at all , then
mysb.com is their cloud server especially on the old players that. Do
What I really would like is music ip like functionality integrated .
MIP is a bit of hustle even if it performs better than smartmix , a
separate server with its own separate scan ,and the files have to be
separately fingerprinted on another abandoned app on another OS yuck .
So MIP like
bakker_be wrote:
Musicbrain ID is quite simple if you use Mediamonkey for tagging.
There's a free add-on specifically for that :) (Windows-only though)
It is simple by other means to but an extra step for me as I tag in
other apps , also the extra run in MIP GUI for each new album and the
cliveb wrote:
Much as we are happy to see Squeezebox-based systems come out on top in
comparisons, reading this article started ringing alarm bells.
His comparisons were using the various players as transports, all
driving the same DAC. The differences he heard will therefore be due to
A simple Q are you supposed to buy the wandboard with accessories
separately ?
Apart from the board and case that John is developing ?
When johns dacboard is released are supposed to transfer the wand board
you already have to this ?
JackOfAll wrote:
Correct. You take out the 4 screws, holding the Wandboard CPU board to
the default carrier board, then transfer it to the JS carrier board and
put the 4 screws back in.
Meaning that the DAC kit will not include any wand board ?
If that's the case I'll get one in 1-2 months
Thanks that cleared up some confusion ( but I probaly should got a
wandboard in January when I had more time ).
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For a comunity kit a black box does it for me :) why I'm suggesting more
stuff if is simply if we are Lockyer enough to go beyond that and these
guys design a true product , it must probably be something like Touch 2
outage mass market appeal
But IR will be a bit awkward without a screen anyway ( I do not intend
to keep a 65 plasma going when listen to music ).
Certain functions could be used as skip, pause ,volume ,mute and off .
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Triode wrote:
I can only do part of the dream at present - there's an applet in the
current code to do wifi and player setup over hdmi/ir [but you do need a
screen and usb ir receiver]
Personally I'm happy with all our indirect interfaces ,as you do setup
with an web-UI you removed the
If you have multiple players and use hi bitrate lossles files you should
definitely wire the server .
I would consider using wifi for an LMS server .
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bakker_be wrote:
I hope you're intending this as a joke ;) I personally see no reason why
a DIY project should be ugly, especially when JS is already thinking
about an extruded aluminium casing and other niceties. At the moment all
my equipment is in an open faced cabinet underneath my
You have t turned on shuffle on some of the synced players ?
Even if get wifi related unreliabilities it should not play games with
the playlist so I suggest that you treat them as separate issues.
Do you use any plugin that could manipulate the current playlist ? is
this static playlist that
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Actually quite weird name , does not work that well :) and i'm getting
used to all share/free ware that goes with linux , that can be named
just about anything and usually have nothing to do with it's function.
Well Sony got away with walkman
pippin wrote:
icky the poo sounds cute to me ;)
And Apple with iPad
Please do not design a mascot , I just ordered pizza
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Will you eventually set-up your own webspace and forum faq, dowloads etc
on http://www.ickstream.com/ now it's just an announcement .
I figure you cant leach of logitechs forum space forever , maybe if
ickStream directly or indirectly enhances their products
Are we comparing what ?
Ip3k player directly to mysb.com -whitout any LMS server to intermediate
- ?
SqueezePlay player directly to mysb.com no server ?
Players that can conect to a local server ( LMS for example ) that in
turn uses a cloud service(s).
Without understanding all tech I think
Will this include any custom player fw or is it only a server+cloud
service with apps thing .
Will the compatibility to all kinds of devices happen in the server
software :) and can you have some kind of synergy with a collection of
devices from anyone , this would be almost to good to be true ?
pippin wrote:
Kind of in-between. Currently, for the Squeezeboxes, it's an Applet.
Custom firmware is difficult, lots of proprietary stuff in there that's
actually needed so adding to the standard firmware is easier as long as
that one still works.
No, it's in the API/on the client side.
Julf wrote:
I was actually thinking about a rule in convert.conf, where you could
perhaps define a rule for converting from wav to wav, just as you can
define rules for converting flac, mp3 etc.
Hmm, but the scanner must still accept the file ? if LMS cant accept
them it wont matter much
Kuro wrote:
I agree that we should use interchangeable plates, as a pack of 4
different plates can cover most countries. Where as with cords, you
need different ones and they take up space and weight in terms of
shipping.
that makes sense , unless the ps is very large then it think a brick
Kuro wrote:
I agree that we should use interchangeable plates, as a pack of 4
different plates can cover most countries. Where as with cords, you
need different ones and they take up space and weight in terms of
shipping.
that makes sense , unless the ps is very large then it think a brick
cliveb wrote:
It's understandable to have an initial knee-jerk reaction of oh God,
not MORE compression, that's bad.
But IMHO this is good news. Dynamic compression is definitely desirable
in some listening situations - on a train, in the car, etc. And it's
patently obvious that the
erland wrote:
Please remember that it's quality not quantity that matters.
:-)
It was a simplistic calculation , i simply looked at the amount of bugs
in bugzilla and the given time frame :)))
(For real , you probably rewrite the whole thing when code gets decades
old and very tangled
garym wrote:
If you're making stuff up, you might as well make it really good.
(isn't that what the marketing people for audiofool equipment do?)
Yep
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garym wrote:
I listened to the conference call via web. They noted that a new team of
engineers has been hired and all outstanding bugs at
bugs.slimdevices.com have been assigned to this team. They expect all
bugs to be addressed by June 1.
Did they hire 3000 people :P
Is it just the screen that changes state or do hey start to play music
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You can also just bookmark the web-ui no need to use the controller
panel , then you could try both and see if there is any difference
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Another second hand squeezebox , it does not have to be a receiver the
controller can happily comunicate with any of the squeezeboxes SB2
SB3/Classic Touch ? They have a bit more functionality than you want but
hey can do everything the reciever does .
Is there not some legal limitations we must consider , if we all hooked
up our server to each other we would only rarely have to buy anything at
all :) if I hooked up to 10 people on the forum with 100k song
collections that would be it .
So this is going to parse truogh our own subscribed
This looks very promising :) it looks like you have the gen 1 device .
Btw I'm also puzzled why we need an micro USB power connector ?
For gen 2 I think a user friendly factory reset button is needed . Can
it work like when you buy a computer with preinstalled OS it has a
restore partition ,
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I've also put to use another means of restoring or backuping a headless
server. It works but it is kind of expensive: permanently attached to
the case are 2 usb keys, one is blue and one is red. Reboot with the
blue key in and the system boots on the key and starts imaging
1. Do you want to recommend music to your friends ?
-- Do you want to recommend it to all your friends, some of them or a
specific one ? *Yes Yes and Yes , but i have to able to choose
recipeint(s)*
-- Do you want to do recommendations manually or do you want
recommendations to be *Manually in
kesey wrote:
Quite a number of us are happily running e.g. the Sheevaplug or the
Raspberry Pi in just such a way. SD Cards can be easily copied,
backed-up and restored using USBit 1.61. It's a good way to go.
That may suffice even in gen 2 if the card is easy to access from the
outside ,on
aubuti wrote:
Very well articulated explanation for the thinking behind the design.
The rationale sounds great, I like the color scheme, and I'm ambivalent
about the cassette shape, but the hearts are way (way!) too cutesy for
my tastes.
A bit like my first Sony google that for pics if
JohnSwenson wrote:
OK,
so what I'm going to do for Gen1 is nothing on the front panel, a green
led on the back that is a real power led, it is directly across the
incoming power feed.
On the back I'll also put a small RGB led connected to 3 pwm outputs of
the processor, that way the
I recomed an external USB backup drive ,the main thing is that it is not
powered and does not run all time but you back up regularly better to
have 2 usb drives (if your really OCD) so that you can take one drive
even weeks/months and the other one odd weeks/months if some corruption
or tagging
And on the old players it is always at 100% volume
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All settings that are on the player itself will be affected ,applets and
all . So it will be the setup routine again .
there is a use case when it s ones own fault , using DTS or AC3 encoded
WAV or flac files and use crossfade...
Can happen in a random playlist if you have such files .
Simple power indicator a rather dim led .
It would be very helpfull if there where some external,way to figure if
it's on or off .
For this purpose it could reside on the backside too not the front .
In fact I propose a very dim gren led on the backside to indicate
functioning power supply ,
vining wrote:
I vote yes, blue. It's first visual indication to diagnose a problem.
Please not blue try that in a dark home cinema , and a blue led is often
very brigth too ,eye piercing .
In fact it s a horrible fashion the latest decade to have blue LEDs on
all tech , it was a statement
The cassete things is nice :) thats cool ,but will everyone get that ?
Do avoid orange or pink ( or Logitech teal ) as colours of the logo or
as colour scheme that's the only thing I have against it , the heart
should not be red iether imho , to much of a fisher price toy look with
garishly
erland wrote:
Some way to know if the device got power or if the power adapter is
broken is probably going to help some troubleshooting for people who
don't want to hook it up to a display. It doesn't have to be on the
front, a simple indication on the back would be good enough.
For
erland wrote:
Should be enough with a single power connection and for this I think the
SBT model would be preferred as it allows people to reuse their high-end
modified power adapters and the rest of us just have to get a power
adapter with the right connector or reuse the one from the
I prefer the top one .
The bottom one may fit a smaller screen as splash screen , with some
reworking of the accordion logo, it is almost in Logitech teal o_O
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I don't think it's necessary to do color on the device itself small
print on the player can be bw or grayscale ?
Color can be for on screen stuff .
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More reason for a squeezebox type barrel is that it is not only the
Touch that has this barrel but also SB3/Classic (I don't know what the
SB2 came with ) reciever ismthe oddball with 9v .
And it has been popular over the years to buy or build 3rd party
supplies so that's a reason for a user to
Maybe it is the notoriously hard to get gapless on dlna , that throw of
developers of other platforms to not think about it ?
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JohnSwenson wrote:
People could be confused, the OTG port looks exactly like the micro
power USB port, they are physically identical. Someone could plug the
OTG port into a charger and nothing happens, or plug the charger port
into a computer and expect it to be a USB DAC and nothing
I like the idea to be able to use existing power suplies OR use the
comunity supply as spare or upgrade to existing players nice synergy
rigth there .
Re running betas , I have only one server and it has been on the latest
betas since 2008 ! Does that qualify as tolerant to things not being
.. And don't cross post I answered your Q in your other tread .
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A incredible stupid Q , but her we go:
How beta would the gen 1 be ?
I can always volunteer to test , but as there are only 25 of them , what
is the qualification to be a good beta tester ?
You obviously wants quality feedback beyond it's dum it doesnt work
:)
I have very little programming
bluegaspode wrote:
I'm still wondering if I should support a custom icon there.
What kind of player symbol should we use?
Still the laptop icon? Any better idea?
A Linux penguin (or does squeezelite also run on windows)?
A picture of the Raspberry Pi as the most likely platform?
An SD card could be sent in to a dev for analysis too .
touch actually has an SD slot for the possibility of fw up/downgrade .
radio has not hence why don't got new fw that often for Radio .
A software problems that mangles network conectivity can happen .
so the possibility of removing the
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Julf wrote:
Really?
The benefit of toslink is galvanic isolation.
Yes its actually implementation dependent some user benefits from the
toslink some from the spdiff you simply cant make a blanket statement
that toslink is always bad, things are more complicated than that.
So both is needed
garym wrote:
Saw this today at hydrogenaudio.org. Hadn't seen it before. Very
interesting (and relevant to our ongoing discussions about blind
testing).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0
Very very cool ,did not know this before thank you :)
It really drives home the point that
Don't fuzz to much over keeping it super small .
Case must be big enough to contain product and fit connectors on the
back .
And the machine is the size it is .
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SlimChances wrote:
It might appear that the web Interface is producing sound if you have
Squeezeplay opened, as the web interface can be used to control
Squeezeplay once it is opened
Just as it can controll a hardware player .
reinholdk wrote:
Please note that restarting the server on Windows usually requires admin
rights. So even if the web-UI says that it'll restart the server after
installing a plugin, this fails without notice in case the user has no
admin rights (you could see the error in the server log).
cliveb wrote:
I can only speak for myself, but as the person who (I believe) first
requested balanced outputs, here are my thoughts. I don't want to use an
external DAC, simply because John has told us that the DAC he's going to
provide will be very special. (Had he not made this claim I
Squeezed_Rotel wrote:
OK, thanks. I did get the Playlist Manager (v4.0)
It is checked off in the plugins list. There is no change in playlist
behavior as compared to the default SC type. I see no context menu as
described by the author;
You can also use service squeezeboxserver restart .
On windows/mac there is a controll panel .
If a plugin has updated itself and you see the text on the left Bolton
ofmthe home page .
Click that and you get to the plugin page in settings and there it is a
popup in the web-UI that lets you
Squeezed_Rotel wrote:
Yes, it works perfectly on all of my players, but in iPeng for iPad, I
can see playlist manager in song info, but the only context option I
see is +add to end or play. No option to pick another playlist.
If I tap playlist manager, I see the iPeng home page and
Ashy72 wrote:
Hi, I have had problems through upgrading my squeeze box firmware in
order to run on lms on a new machine i built, i wish i hadnt as i had
had a very stable system running on an old linux box on an older
firmware that i was happy with.
i have had problems ever since
... And now i can see the original post ?? mystery
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Squeezed_Rotel wrote:
I am trying to add selections to a new playlist while listening to my
library in random song playback mode. I have iPeng, SqueezePad and
SqueezeCenter.
Any thoughts?
TIA
John
Install the playlist manager plugin if you already havent that makes
you able to add songs
bpa wrote:
Most stations are played direct to player with no involvement of the
server except in the case of transcoding or sync. If you were to make
all traffic go through the server (which would might mean more powerful
servers are needed and more local network bandwidth), then you could
bpa wrote:
It's a lot a of work if server has to save the audio stream as there
issues about starting/stopping streams (e.g. different stream
types/different headers/ time estimation or should all streams be
transcoded) and also ensuring cross platform. A few years ago, I worked
out it
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